The Starry Night @ Klingt Gut! symposium 2016

Posted on March 16, 2016 by Augusto Meijer

“The Starry Night” (2015) is an electroacoustic music composition by Augusto Meijer.
It was presented at Klingt Gut! Symposium on Sound at the Arts and Media campus in Hamburg. A short lecture about the composition was given during the symposium.

from klangsymposium.de
The Hamburg University of Applied Sciences and the Audio Engineering Society Student Section Hamburg are pleased to announce the second installment of klingt gut! Symposium on Sound at the Arts and Media Campus in Hamburg.

For three days international artists and scientists will present their work in the fields of sound design, sound art, electro-acoustic music, and the interdependence of aesthetics and technology.
Participants will enjoy a series of informative lectures, hands-on workshops, and interactive panel discussions as well as cutting edge installations and performances at Germany’s most state-of-the-art media campus.

Augusto Meijer The Starry Night Klingt Gut Hamburg

Decimation @ Spazioersetti Hear Rooms 2015

Posted on December 2, 2015 by Augusto Meijer

Augusto Meijer – Decimation was presented at the Spazioersetti exhibition space in Italy.

from spazioersetti.it
“The Spazioersetti special events programme 2015/2016 starts with a collective exhibition.
A selection of multi-channel sound installations and electroacoustic compositions by international artists will be offered to local audience during a two day happening.
The programme will feature the best proposals submitted to Spazioersetti in response to our Open call for works.
Works will be played in a sequence and divided by 5 minutes intervals. Sequence is repeated in loop.”

Spazioersetti Hear Room | photo: Lara Carrer

Sounds for Har Holland’s “Light Dome” @ GLOW 2015

Posted on November 12, 2015 by Augusto Meijer

The GLOW festival is an annual eight-day Light Art festival in the city of Eindhoven, the Netherlands.
The theme for GLOW 2015 was “Nature & Architecture”.
Augusto Meijer has produced sounds for Har Hollands‘ Light Dome installation, exhibited during GLOW festival 2015.
The spatial sounds are based around the theme of “Nature & Architecture” and they are distributed over 8 loudspeakers.

Har Hollands' Light Dome

Utopia @ Acousmatic Transcendence II

Posted on September 20, 2015 by Augusto Meijer

‘Acousmatic Transcendence: A Feast of Diffusion’ is a series of events taking place in three consecutive days comprising spatial sound workshops and concerts. The events bring together two sound diffusion systems (from the University of Kent and Vienna) that amount to 65 loudspeakers.

“Utopia” (2014, Augusto Meijer) will be performed by Thomas Gorbach on 25th September 2015.

HyperCube @ Ruimtekoers Festival 2015

Posted on March 15, 2015 by Augusto Meijer

– more on HyperCube
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“HyperCube” Art Installation
Design: Jaap vd Elzen
Sound: Augusto Meijer
i.a.w. Oddstream

hypercube ruimtekoers augusto meijer jaap van den elzen oddstream

Structural vacancy is an international problem, which includes cities like London, New York or Tokyo. “Ruimtekoers” is a new initiative from a network of urban pioneers based in Arnhem (The Netherlands). They will present a public program from March 14th / April 11th 2015, packed with innovative interventions. The problem of vacancy will be used to bring the city to life. Available spaces are literally lit with green LED lighting and projections. The HyperCube installation is a part of the program.

HyperCube @ DGTL Festival 2015

Posted on January 27, 2015 by Augusto Meijer

– more on HyperCube
– more on DGTL

“HyperCube” Art Installation
Design: Jaap vd Elzen
Sound: Augusto Meijer
i.a.w. Oddstream

from residentadvisor.net/

DGTL Festival is back in 2015! The Amsterdam festival – renowned for it’s line-up, art and sustainability program – returns to the NDSM Docklands. During the Easter Holiday over 80 artists from around the world showcase the best of innovative electronic music. Headliners include popular international acts like Jamie Jones, Maceo Plex, Dixon and Ten Walls and underground masterminds such as Michael Mayer, Move D and John Talabot. Combined with an extensive art and awareness program, DGTL Festival 2015 is the perfect start of the festival season. Expect innovative stage designs, art installations from around the world and sustainable innovation through our DGTL Revolution project, which has been awarded a two out of four star rating by ‘A Greener Festival’ last month.

The NDSM area is a gigantic abandoned shipyard ten minutes from Amsterdam Central station and fits the DGTL vibe perfectly. On the 4th and 5th of April 2015 the docklands will be transformed into one of the industry’s leading underground festivals, with a progressive approach on every aspect.

Seeking to connect the fields of tech innovation and warehouse-based nostalgia, DGTL ART will showcase a variety of innovative lighting, futuristic sculptures and crazy interactive performance acts to enhance the ambiance.

Utopia @ The San Francisco Tape Music Festival 2015

Posted on December 20, 2014 by Augusto Meijer

“Utopia” by Augusto Meijer was presented at the San Francisco Tape Music Festival on the 2nd show on Saturday, January 10, 2015.
Pieces by Brian Eno, Pauline Oliveros, and Cliff Caruthers were also on the program.

from sfsound.org/tape/

America’s only festival devoted to the performance of audio works projected in three-dimensional space, The San Francisco Tape Music Festival features three distinct evenings of classic audio art and new fixed media compositions by 32 local and international composers. Hear members of the SF Tape Music Collective, along with guest composers, shape the sound live over a pristine surround system consisting of 16 high-end loudspeakers while the audience is seated in complete darkness. It’s a unique opportunity to experience music forming – literally – around you.

The 2015 Festival features two concerts showcasing the entire range of the “fixed media” artform; a Saturday late-night concert of longer, psychedelic, and ambient tape pieces (including the premiere of the 17-minute, 16-channel “full” version of BRIAN ENO’S Golden); and a concert featuring SFSOUNDGROUP musicians performing electroacoustic works by French and American composers.

The Saturday 11pm concert features a premiere by BRIAN ENO. In 2007, Eno composed a 16-channel piece, Golden for our festival. He created multiple versions of various lengths, and the “full” 17-minute version will have its public debut on this program. In addition, we present a rare performance of PAULINE OLIVEROS’S The Day I Disconnected The Erase Head And Forgot To Reconnect It – one of her classic analog synth tape pieces from 1966 that predates the Bay Area Noise scene by decades. The program also includes a new work by dutch composer AUGUSTO MEIJER and a sonic landscape composition by San Francisco Tape Music Collective’s own CLIFF CARUTHERS.

“Utopia” @ Joint ICMC-SMC 2014 Conference

Posted on August 15, 2014 by Augusto Meijer

“Utopia” is an acousmatic composition journey that presents a brief momentum of colorfully structured sound fields, with the intention to boost an audience’s imagination into a temporary utopian mindset.

Prior to the creation of “Utopia” there have been a series of sound creation experiments. These experiments primarily involved “explorations” in the creation of complex sound fields. For example, a simplistic sound phrase is processed in such a structured way that it becomes a complex, layered sound field. Various relating sound fields have been generated this way, using similar sound sources. “Utopia” was created by organizing these resulting sound fields poetically.